OBS Chapter 3407: Coffin Rebirth and Castle (Seeking votes at the beginning of the month)
Chapter 3407: Coffin Rebirth and Castle (Seeking votes at the beginning of the month)
Chapter 3407: Coffin Rebirth and Castle (Seeking votes at the beginning of the month)
"The Drowned One of the Deep Sea, the King of the Tomb, these gods of death are really generous to me."
As he looked at the bracelet, he thought about it and even wanted to thank the god who had just been lying in the same coffin with him in person. Unfortunately, it seemed that there was no chance to thank him now. The adventure in the Tombstone Wasteland was over, and Shade had no intention of going back again.
Although the "evil god" is generally considered evil, at least this time he really provided great help. Thinking about it this way, the biggest gain from this adventure in [Tombstone Wasteland] is actually knowing the secret of God and obtaining this drop of divinity.
With Mia standing on his shoulder, Shad looked at the half-moon in the distance and sighed:
"The gods of death are so generous, where are the gods of the moon?"
"She" smiled softly:
【The God of Night, the God of Mist.】
The former is the ruler of "Eternal Night City", who hunted down Shade and Fiona at the end of the adventure and almost prevented them from escaping. The latter is the barefoot, brown-skinned saint dressed as a dancer in "Gravel Sand Sea". The God of Mist helped Shade a lot, and it is suspected that the remaining power of this god awakened Shade in the "Love Lake" incident.
However, neither of these two gods gave Shade divinity.
【The blood-sucking god.】
This god also possessed the power of the Red Moon, and was an evil god like the "King of the Grave." Shade did receive divinity from him, but to be more precise, that drop of divinity was a "prize" Shade won after fighting with this god on Mount Xikar, and it was not given by the other party.
The other party even had malicious intentions and wanted to snatch the butterfly from the stranger, but fortunately the stranger won in the end.
【Don’t be too greedy. 】
"She" reminded softly, and Xia De nodded softly:
"Yes, don't be too greedy, it's good enough now."
From the time Xia De was caught by the white bone hand to the time Xia De appeared here, he felt that less than ten seconds had passed, and everything that happened in the coffin seemed like an illusion. But the advantage of this was that he still had a lot of time left out of the 120 minutes.
It took the longest time to get from the hut to the temple. The time was quite chaotic as one walked against the wind and fog against the Road of the Dead, so these two processes took a total of more than sixty minutes. The subsequent battle process could be ignored, so Shade now had more than fifty minutes left.
Thinking in this way, even without the double time added by the [Time Corridor], he is fully capable of completing the task before the specified time.
Now, of course, he could end his mission and return home, but since there was still so much time left, he still wanted to say goodbye to Miss Violet and the others.
"I don't want to think about it anymore. Let's go."
So he walked towards the familiar little wooden boat, and even the familiar oars were placed on the boat. They were always here when Xia De didn't use them, and other people couldn't use them even if they came here.
But "she" gave a gentle reminder:
[No, don't use this boat to leave here while the time key is turned on. Be careful not to get lost in time and space.]
"But last time at Black Sand Pier... well, last time there was the Ferryman God."
But apart from the boat, Xia De had no other way to get to the world of the living. However, he soon set his sights on the black coffin stranded on the shore, and after thinking about it, he pushed it into the water. As it slowly floated towards Mingyue, Xia De held up the coffin lid and took Mia with him, and jumped into the coffin from the shore with a running start.
The coffin shook, and Shade lay down and closed the lid, and then darkness fell again:
"Even though they all say I'm a child, I just want to return to the real world. I don't want to really become a 'newborn'."
As he thought about it, the coffin slowly moved away from the shore and moved forward under the light of the dark moon, and was gradually dyed silver by the light of the moon. However, Shade in the coffin was completely unaware of the situation outside, but he did find that Mia's big amber eyes were surprisingly bright in the dark. The cat thought Shade was going to sleep, so it curled up on his chest.
The man and the cat fell silent, and Shade soon fell into a drowsy state. Until one moment, his consciousness regained consciousness, and he understood:
"We've arrived at our stop, haven't we?"
After waiting for a while without getting any answer, Xia De carefully opened the coffin lid a little, and bright sunlight immediately shone in, and Mia woke up.
He opened the lid completely, and Xia De sat up from the coffin, breathing deeply, and then looked up at the blue sky and white clouds above his head with a smile, feeling that the depressed feeling in his heart was swept away. Joy and relief filled his heart. No matter when he returned from the world of the dead to the world of the living, it was so happy.
He was about to say something when he heard a chaotic voice in the distance:
"Someone is invading the castle!"
"Who saw clearly how the coffin emerged from the water?"
"Quick, the enemy is attacking, notify the head maid!"
Then came Theresa's voice, which was familiar to Shade:
"It's not an enemy, it's the teacher's friend who has come. Don't be nervous, go and inform the teacher and tell him that the man has also returned."
This coffin did not emerge from any river or ocean, but from the center of a small lake.
The sky was clear blue in the summer morning, and the lake where the coffin lay was like a silver mirror, reflecting the castle located at the foot and hillside of the mountain not far ahead.
The lake shone with a pearly luster and was almost twice the size of Saint Teresa's Square. To be honest, the castle that stretched from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside looked more like a small city to Shade.
Compared with it, the ice and snow "castle" in the Fatumunster Snow Mountain can only be called a laboratory.
There were several young girls standing by the lake, and a few black-feathered water birds flew over the water because of the cat's cry, causing ripples. When Shade's eyes followed the direction of the water birds' flight toward the towering castle, he even felt that the scene was so beautiful that it seemed like a fairy tale dream.
The castle is built of dark purple and lime-colored stones, and looks exceptionally clean in the summer morning sun. The left and right width of the castle is greater than the height from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. The building is in a Gothic style with many spires, but if you look closely, you can see that the details are integrated with the ancient elf craftsmanship familiar to Shade.
Each tower is as slender as a feather in the sun, with silver wind chimes hanging on the top of the towers. When the wind blows, they hum softly, as if girls are singing softly.
The most eye-catching thing is the giant glass dome on the top of the main tower at the center of the castle. It looks like a round crown made of amber and amethyst, like a melted starry sky fragment. The sunlight penetrates the colored glass and casts soft and colorful light and shadow on the castle's outer wall.
This mountain castle is neither as cold and majestic as a palace, nor as flashy and ostentatious as the mundane world. It is the cold, profound and eternal beauty of the Witch Emperor/Demigod Witch - Violet Marshall, which is in line with Shad's imagination of Miss Violet.
As he and the cat looked towards the castle, the girl wearing round-framed glasses walked quickly in front of Shade, holding up her skirt and stepping on the "lake":
"Shad, how did you get out of the fountain?"
She asked with a smile, stretched out her hand and pulled Xia De out of the coffin, and Xia De also stood on the water:
"Is this a fountain?"
He thought this was the viewing lake in front of the castle. Theresa nodded:
"The fountain facilities are now submerged in water and not open. This is just a mountain residence for teachers to vacation in the summer, so the fountain looks a bit shabby."
The stranger blinked and wanted to say something, but Theresa had already opened her arms and stood on the water to hug him directly. The blonde had already washed and changed into new clothes, and she smelled very good at this time:
"We came back yesterday evening. After you were caught by those six hands and thrown up, we were also caught by those hands, and then we came back. I didn't see you around at that time, and I was really worried. I comforted myself that you had returned to your own time."
Xia De also talked about his own experience:
"I was sent to death by the god, and he generously allowed me to bid farewell to the hounds that helped us along the way. They have been reunited with their master."
He stood on the water, holding Theresa, and looked up at the castle:
"How is Miss Violet? And how are Sister Belen and Miss Liad? Have they returned to the places where they entered the wasteland, or are they with Miss Violet like you?"
"Everyone is here except you and the hounds. Come with me and I'll show you around."
The young blonde girl said this and took Shade's hand and walked towards the castle. According to her, Miss Violet was on summer vacation. After receiving her call for help in the vacation castle, she directly split her soul here to create a puppet and ran to the Tombstone Wasteland to help her.
When they returned yesterday evening, they did not appear in the lake, but directly in Miss Violet’s bedroom under the curved glass dome of the castle.
“Wait a minute, that big dome is the bedroom ceiling? How big is Miss Violet’s bedroom?”
"You'll see for yourself in a moment, Shade. I know you don't have much time, so let's run. You know what? I've always wondered when I could hold your hand and run together."
The Witch Emperor doesn't use this castle often, but judging from its size, you can tell that there are quite a lot of maids in the castle. However, these maids are all trustworthy, so it's okay to let them see Shade.
The news spread quickly. When Theresa took Shad's hand and ran up the hundreds of steps in front of the castle, Miss Liad and Sister Beren were already waiting for Shad in the hall at the entrance.
[Tombstone Wasteland] also has the problem of losing memory after leaving, but Sister Beren is protected by fire, and Miss Theresa and Miss Liad also have key memories left by Miss Violet, so everyone still remembers Shad.
However, the only person not seen here was the Witch Queen. After greeting the girls, Shade asked about her again, and Theresa said:
"When my aunt faced the Saint, she blew up her body twice, causing damage to one-third of her soul. So after she came back, she has been resting in bed."
PS1: The picture in this chapter is "Castle by the Lake".
PS2: I wish you all a happy Children's Day! I really don't know how to wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival, but I can always be happy on Children's Day!
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